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On Thursday 10 July 2003 06:06 pm, John Mills wrote:
Snippage...

> > >Let's keep to the facts and look at the numbers.
> > >
> > >OpenBSD leader Theo states that there are 7000 users of OpenBSD. How
> > >many users of NetBSD are there? Let's see. The number of OpenBSD versus
> > >NetBSD posts on Usenet is roughly in ratio of 5 to 1. Therefore there
> > >are about 7000/5 = 1400 NetBSD users. BSD/OS posts on Usenet are about
> > >half of the volume of NetBSD posts. Therefore there are about 700 users
> > >of BSD/OS. A recent article put FreeBSD at about 80 percent of the *BSD
> > >market. Therefore there are (7000+1400+700)*4 = 36400 FreeBSD users.
> > >This is consistent with the number of FreeBSD Usenet posts.


What kinda of math is this?!?! It this the sorta thing they are teaching in 
public schools now?  

This is sooo flawed this could not even make it as swiss cheese. What sorta 
crack pots (heads) write for /* ??? 

I would hate to see this yo-yo's check register. Ohh, that's right - he uses 
Quicken for Windows

-- 

Best regards,
                 Chris
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